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THE PROPERTY OF AN EAST COAST COLLECTOR
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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-
DECORATED MOONFLASK
18TH CENTURY
The moonfask is decorated on each side with a stylized fower
spray within a ruyi-head border, surrounded by composite foliate
scroll below pendent beaded chains on the neck which is fanked
by a pair of dragon-head handles. The underglaze blue imitates
‘heaping and piling’ and the copper red shades from crushed
strawberry to brownish-red.
12º in. (31.1 cm.) high
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE
Benjamin F. Edwards III (1931-2009) Collection, no. 3692.
Christie’s New York, 18 September 2003, lot 322 (part).
清十八世紀 青花釉里紅寶相花雙龍耳抱月瓶

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